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Thoughts on I Put A Spell On You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone with Stephen Cleary
This is the story of Nina Simone the Freedom Singer who refused to be shoved into boxes such as jazz, pop, classical, folk or blues.
Rutendo Chichaya
5 min read
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A Reflection of Zimbabwe in Gather the Children by Batsirai Chigama
Gather the Children is an anthology of fifty poems written by Batsirai E. Chigama.
Rutendo Chichaya
5 min read
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Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems by Alice Walker
Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems is an anthology of poems collected from 1965- 1990. In over one hundred and fifty poems...
Rutendo Chichaya
3 min read
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Verses of Bold Resistance in No Roses From My Mouth by Dr Stella Nyanzi
No Roses From My Mouth is a collection of about one hundred and fifty poems. The collection is divided into three volumes which address ...
Rutendo Chichaya
5 min read
80
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Uprooted by Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure
UPROOTED is an anthology made up of about seventy poems which address and explore issues of displaced immigrants and refugees living in ...
Rutendo Chichaya
3 min read
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Reflecting the Moments in Nikki Giovanni’s Collected Poetry (1968 -1998)
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni is an anthology that features her early poems, these poems were written between 1968 and 1998.
Rutendo Chichaya
4 min read
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Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
This is a highly charged collection of selected poems from various works. A collection that tackles so many issues that affected ...
Rutendo Chichaya
3 min read
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Brass Neck by Victoria Naa Takia Nunoo
In this anthology Nunoo writes about owning desire, discovering sensuality, belonging, tragedy, tenderness and self love.
Rutendo Chichaya
3 min read
13
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Memory & Burping Justice in Koleka Putuma’s Collective Amnesia.
Reading Koleka Putuma’s poetry felt like being immersed in a sermon on every page. A baptism of reality to a society that ...
Rutendo Chichaya
4 min read
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Twenty Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing
The twenty short stories in this book make up a beautiful collection. The introduction by Ben Okri is befitting, enlightening, comforting
Rutendo Chichaya
2 min read
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If You Keep Digging by Keletso Mopai
There are thirteen stories in this collection which focus on a wide array of topical themes. Mopai takes us into a South African experience
Rutendo Chichaya
5 min read
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A Review of Love in Colour by Bolu Babalola
This is a collection of love tales from around the world retold in a creative and new way. The collection is made up of thirteen stories;
Rutendo Chichaya
3 min read
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Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
This book had me reflecting on what it means to be human, to be ‘different,’ and labeled. Written in a free flowing style ...
Rutendo Chichaya
4 min read
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‘Isn’t that why we are alive, to feel alive?’| A Review of Mohale Mashigo’s ‘Intruders’
‘Intruders’ is a short story anthology made up of twelve stories. The book is divided into three parts, The Good, The Bad and The Colourful.
Rutendo Chichaya
4 min read
166
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Turquoise Dreams:Anthology of short stories by Zimbabwean women edited by Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure
Twenty nine diverse stories which usher the reader into the lives of Zimbabwean women in different circumstances.
Rutendo Chichaya
6 min read
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